1. Never run back to what broke you. – Frank Ocean
2. I don’t intend to stop making music. – Frank Ocean
3. I play piano every day. I enjoy that. – Frank Ocean
4. My music definitely comes from a place of experience. Everything connects to a truth. – Frank Ocean
5. She straightens her hair, puts on eyeliner, glosses her lips and takes one last look in the mirror, all for the boy who doesn’t care. – Frank Ocean
6. Smile, it’s easier than explaining why you’re sad. – Frank Ocean
7. Remember life, remember how it was. Climb trees, Michael Jackson, it all ends here. – Frank Ocean
8. I like the anonymity that directors can have about their films. – Frank Ocean
9. When you’re happy you enjoy the music, but when you’re sad you understand the lyrics. – Frank Ocean
10. If it brings me to my knees, it’s a bad religion. – Frank Ocean
11. Each individual’s success as a solo artist is pretty much a win for the whole team. – Frank Ocean
12. You can’t think. You just have to do things. – Frank Ocean
13. Go for someone who is proud to have you. – Frank Ocean
14. I won’t touch on risky, because that’s subjective. People are just afraid of things too much. Afraid of things that don’t necessarily merit fear. – Frank Ocean
15. I want to thank The Beatles for almost single-handedly getting me out of writer’s block. – Frank Ocean
16. Of course awards matter. – Frank Ocean
17. If someone breaks your heart, just punch them in the face. Seriously. Punch them in the face and go get some ice cream. – Frank Ocean
18. We’ll never be those kids again. – Frank Ocean
19. Some people focus more on sonics. Some people focus more on story. I focus on both sonics and story. – Frank Ocean
20. I feel like I was writing as I was learning to talk. Writing was always a go to form of communication. – Frank Ocean
21. I’m an artist and a modern person. – Frank Ocean
22. I guess I’m just inspired to tell stories. – Frank Ocean
23. No, I don’t like you, I just thought you were cute enough to kiss you. – Frank Ocean
24. I believe that marriage isn’t between a man and woman; but between love and love. – Frank Ocean
25. I don’t ever want to be caught up in a system of thinking I can do one thing ‘cos that’s just… that’s just telling yourself a lie. – Frank Ocean
26. As a writer, as a creator, I’m giving you my experiences. But just take what I give you. You ain’t got to pry beyond that. – Frank Ocean
27. It’s just really about trying to do whatever it is I do at a level of excellence. That’s really all I’m trying to do while I’m here. – Frank Ocean
28. Don’t ever play with someone’s feelings, you could win the game but you could lose that person forever. – Frank Ocean
29. The idea of recognizing your strengths and using them in as versatile a way as you can is cool to me. – Frank Ocean
30. I never think about myself as an artist working in this time. I think about it in macro. – Frank Ocean
31. There’s just some magic in truth and honesty and openness. – Frank Ocean
32. I bet our mother would be proud of you. – Frank Ocean
33. Keep Writing, Keep Living, Keep Loving – Frank Ocean
34. I worked my face off. – Frank Ocean
35. We all know we have a finite period of time. I just feel if I’m going to be alive, I want to be challenged — to be as immortal as possible. The path to that isn’t an easy way, but it’s a rewarding way. – Frank Ocean
36. I’m extremely compassionate, loving, all of those warm fuzzy things, but the outer shell doesn’t project that all the time. – Frank Ocean
37. Super-envious of the fact that Daft Punk can wear robot helmets and be one of the most famous bands in the world, while also understanding that will never be my situation. – Frank Ocean
38. I don’t know if I ever told you this before, but you’re the only one I ever waited for this long. – Frank Ocean
39. This has always been my life and no one else’s, and that’s how it’s always been since the day I came in it. – Frank Ocean
40. Just remember; someone loves everything you hate about yourself. – Frank Ocean
41. I’m about being the best. – Frank Ocean
42. Work hard in silence, let success be your noise. – Frank Ocean
43. Those who are heartless, once cared too much. – Frank Ocean
44. Feelings that come back are feelings that never left. – Frank Ocean
45. The first four and a half years was me in the studio every day, writing songs for other people. I had jobs, too – eleven jobs. I worked at Kinko’s, Fatburger, Subway – I was a sandwich artist – and I was a claims processor at Allstate Insurance. – Frank Ocean
46. As a lifestyle you always being the focal point is innately unhealthy. – Frank Ocean
47. If you could see my thoughts, you could see our faces. – Frank Ocean
48. hi lisen to the sound of music – Frank Ocean
49. Once I catch you in one lie, it makes me question everything you said. – Frank Ocean
50. It’s a bad religion to be in love with someone who could never love you. – Frank Ocean
51. I make pop culture. – Frank Ocean
52. I know that we sin but I do believe we try, we all try. – Frank Ocean
53. Some people focus more on sonics. Some people focus more on story. I focus on both sonics and story, but music sometimes, just music itself, can turn into more of a maths problem. I guess everything in life is a math problem, but it can be more about an empirical route to getting the symmetry that you want, and this vibe, sonically. – Frank Ocean
54. The worse part of being lied to is when you realize you believed it. – Frank Ocean
55. It’s not always easy to be transparent about your emotions and sometimes the music can get heavy. – Frank Ocean
56. It’s hard to articulate how I think about myself as a public figure. – Frank Ocean
57. Excuses are the tools of the weak and incompetent. They build bridges to nowhere and tunnels to nothingness… Those who excel in them seldom do in anything else, therefore, there are no excuses. – Frank Ocean
58. I don’t know if I ever told you this before, but you’re the only one I ever waited for this long. – Frank Ocean
59. Distance sometimes lets you know who’s worth keeping and who’s worth letting go. – Frank Ocean
60. You just do what you can and you have as much fun as possible. – Frank Ocean
61. A friend of mine jokes that I have a painstaking royalty complex. Like maybe I was a duke in a past life. – Frank Ocean
62. I’ve been thinking about forever. – Frank Ocean
63. Why see the world / when you got the beach? – Frank Ocean
64. Don’t confuse my personality with my attitude. My personality is who I am, and my attitude depends on who you are. – Frank Ocean
65. I enjoy singing my songs in front of people. – Frank Ocean
66. We met for a reason, either you’re a blessing or a lesson. – Frank Ocean
67. I’m not a centerfold. – Frank Ocean
68. Whatever you do, never run back to what broke you – Frank Ocean
69. I don’t know anything and neither do you. – Frank Ocean
70. I don’t have any secrets I need kept any more. – Frank Ocean
71. I might just write a novel next. I don’t know! – Frank Ocean
72. I booked my first studio at like 12 or 13. Somewhere in that season of my life, singing along with the radio became me wanting to be on radio, you know. – Frank Ocean
73. When you write a song like ‘Forrest Gump,’ the subject can’t be androgynous. It requires an unnecessary amount of effort. – Frank Ocean
74. It’s cool to be recognized by your peers. – Frank Ocean
75. And I can’t believe it, it’s crazy because I like her. – Frank Ocean